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Just some catching up.

Flowers in our front yard.  However, recent rains knocked them down and they are about gone for the season.  So much rain in the last few days.

Someone is going to be wearing this one.  We just haven't been to the post office to ship it out yet.  Cute, huh?  One of the bookstores in Nauvoo is a chain store from Kalifornia.  They have all of Arlene's points on records so we've picked up a couple of used books.  We were in today and I asked where they got all of these nice, used books from.  He said, "California".  That's just weird!

This is our ward building in Burlington, Iowa.

This is the back end of the parking lot.  Way across the lot are a few houses.  No idea who mows this but that is quite a few acres of grass to mow and play games on for Mutual nights.  Everyone here has riding mowers.  It's crazy.

On Sunday night the Salden's invited the four couples over for dinner.  We all go up to Burlington for church together.  It was Sister Salden's birthday but she wanted to share her day with all of us.  We had turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potatoes (w/marshmallows), corn, string beans, broccoli salad, french bread, and dessert.  It was pretty good eating.  No one has a BBQ here so it's mostly crock pot or oven faire.  Buit, it's usually pretty good stuff.

Sister Allred, Mom, Sister Salden, Brother Allred, Sister Bender, Brother Salden...

Brother Allred, Sister Bender, Brother Salden, Brother Bender.  Obviously, I am taking the picts. 

Check tomorrow for more pictures...